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Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York
Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
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Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York
Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
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Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York

Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York

by Mark Allen Baker
Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York
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Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York

Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York

by Mark Allen Baker

Overview

Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596297692
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 05/13/2010
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Mark Allen Baker is a former business executive (General Electric/Genigraphics Corporation, assistant to the president and CEO), author (fifteen books), historian and writer (over two hundred articles). A graduate of the State University of New York, with postgraduate work completed at MIT, RIT and George Washington University, his expertise has been referenced in numerous periodicals, including USA Today, Sports Illustrated and Money magazine. Following his 1997 book, Goldmine's Price Guide to Rock & Roll Memorabilia, he appeared as a co-host on the VH-1 series Rock Collectors. Baker has also been a featured speaker at many events, including the Hemingway Days Festival and Writers Conference in Key West, Florida. He may also be familiar to some as the former co-owner of Bleachers Restaurant & Sports Bar (Liverpool, New York). Acting as a historian for the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Baker is the only individual who has been a volunteer, chairperson and sponsor of an Induction Weekend event, both inside and outside the village of Canastota. He has also published artwork, articles and books related to the museum. Baker turns his attention to the hardwood for a book about basketball to be published in the fall of 2010.

Table of Contents

Foreword Edward Brophy 9

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction. Title Town, USA 13

1 Canastota, New York 21

2 Boxing in Upstate New York: The Fights 39

3 Boxing in Upstate New York: The People 61

4 Carmen Basilio: Road to Robinson 81

5 Billy Backus: Mission: "Mantequilla" 103

6 The International Boxing Hall of Fame 119

7 A Gallery of Champions 129

8 A Score to Settle: The Twentieth Anniversary 139

Selected Bibliography 155

About the Author 159

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